Beloved, let us love one another: in opposition to the malice and cruelty of these enemies to true and pure Christianity, he exhorteth to mutual love, not limited to themselves, as undoubtedly he did not intend, see note on 1 John 3:14; but that they should do their part towards all others, letting it lie upon them, if it were not reciprocated and mutual. For love is of God; this he presses as a further discrimination; nothing being more evidential of relation and alliance to God, than a duly regulated love, which is of him.
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1 John 4:7
7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is borna of God, and knoweth God.